CommanderFrank
Cat Can't Scratch It
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It’s all fun and games until someone loses their tax exempt status. For Georgia, the fun is over with Amazon charging online sales tax for all Georgians beginning September 1st. The State of Georgia looks to make about $18 Million per year in new tax revenues from the Amazon sales tax.
The ability of e-commerce companies to skip out on sales tax has rankled bricks-and-mortar retailers, who have argued it gives retailers like Amazon unfair advantage. That soon may come to a complete end, if a bill wending its way through the U.S. House is passed.